Posted by: Mixermap
« on: July 02, 2017, 07:03:53 AM »I see! I didn't realise they were so scarce over there...
Thinking about it though...it's probably because they were so much more popular in Europe and didn't do too well in Canada and USA.
Hence finding 110Volt ones is way more difficult I suppose.
About the STF model: the floppy drive is 720KB so it's fine.
It's best to format floppies in a PC first and then use them in the ST, that way you can copy files to and from PC very easily.
I am sure you know all this but, just in case...
Also, USB floppy drives will not be able to format 720KB floppies on modern PCs, any old laptop will do though.
One last thing, if you do not have any 720KB you can use 1.44MB ones by covering the second hole with some dark tape but the disks will be unreliable. I am saying that because it is now very difficult over here to find 720KB floppies.
There are lots of those formatted on the Amiga but unfortunately, once formatted on an Amiga, the floppy cannot be used by a PC or ST EVER AGAIN!!! (I discovered it after I bought a bulk 50 floppies from an Amiga guy...)
If you have one of those Yamaha MDF2 units though, they can be recovered to PC format. The added bonus of bulk formatting with an MDF2 is that it's very sensitive do faulty disks: if the MDF2 formats it ok, then you can be sure it's a 100% reliable floppy
The MDF3 will not do because it uses 1.44MB and the MDF1 uses the crappy QuickDisks.
If you need any help with running music software on the ST, let me know
Thinking about it though...it's probably because they were so much more popular in Europe and didn't do too well in Canada and USA.
Hence finding 110Volt ones is way more difficult I suppose.
About the STF model: the floppy drive is 720KB so it's fine.
It's best to format floppies in a PC first and then use them in the ST, that way you can copy files to and from PC very easily.
I am sure you know all this but, just in case...
Also, USB floppy drives will not be able to format 720KB floppies on modern PCs, any old laptop will do though.
One last thing, if you do not have any 720KB you can use 1.44MB ones by covering the second hole with some dark tape but the disks will be unreliable. I am saying that because it is now very difficult over here to find 720KB floppies.
There are lots of those formatted on the Amiga but unfortunately, once formatted on an Amiga, the floppy cannot be used by a PC or ST EVER AGAIN!!! (I discovered it after I bought a bulk 50 floppies from an Amiga guy...)
If you have one of those Yamaha MDF2 units though, they can be recovered to PC format. The added bonus of bulk formatting with an MDF2 is that it's very sensitive do faulty disks: if the MDF2 formats it ok, then you can be sure it's a 100% reliable floppy
The MDF3 will not do because it uses 1.44MB and the MDF1 uses the crappy QuickDisks.
If you need any help with running music software on the ST, let me know